[quote=madjim;86929]I will clone my hard drive with Ghost and keep it in the computer, unplugged. I see no use in powering up the copy of the drive if it can't be used in conjunction with my C:\ drive. /QUOTE]
I may be missing something here, but I see no point in this at all. You would have to go in and connect the drive every time you changed the data on your main drive. If you didn't your back up drive would not be current, so what would be the purpose?
All it takes is a start up disk that you make with Norton, to boot the pc and clone the backup disc to the failed c:
An option that would permit you to boot to the back-up drive may be to use a bootable USB drive as the back-up drive. Here's some dope on that:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1676
Dunno, as I have no personal experience with it, but it seems plausible.